Freeman H. Morse

Freeman Harlow Morse ( born February 18, 1807 in Bath, Maine; † February 5, 1891 in Surbiton, England ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1845, and again from 1857 to 1861, he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Freeman Morse attended private schools and then the Bath Academy. He was then figure Schnitzer. He carved mainly ship figures. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Whig party. Between 1840 and 1844 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Maine.

1842 Morse was in the fourth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David Bronson on March 4, 1843. Until March 3, 1845, he was initially able to complete a term in Congress. This period was overshadowed by the quarrels between his party and President John Tyler. In addition, the inclusion of self-employed since 1836 Republic of Texas was controversial. A little later, it should come across this question to the Mexican-American War.

In the years 1849, 1850 and 1855 was Morse Mayor of Bath. 1853 and 1856 he was again in the House of Representatives from Maine. After the dissolution of his party in the 1850s, Morse became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856 he was re-elected as its candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1857 Samuel P. Benson. After a re-election in 1858, he could spend up to 3 March 1861, two other legislative periods in Congress. These were determined by the tensions leading up to the Civil War. Since 1859 Morse was Chairman of the Committee on Maritime Affairs. At that time he witnessed the emergence of the congressmen from the south, after more and more countries withdrew from this region from the Union to join the Confederacy. At the same time Kansas State was re-recorded in the Union in January 1861. In the spring of 1861 Morse was a member of the Commission in Washington, which sought to prevent the outbreak of the Civil War failed at the last minute. In the elections of 1860 he gave up for reelection.

Between 1861 and 1870, Morse was an American consul in London. There he had taken important diplomatic tasks for the Union during the Civil War. In 1870, Freeman Morse put to rest. He decided to spend his life in England, and died on February 5, 1891 in Surbiton, a town in the county of Surrey, which now belongs to London.

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